John Stevens

Una de las grandes autoridades mundiales en aikido nos describe, con amenidad y profundidad, la biografía y enseñanza fundamental del maestro fundador del Aikido: Morihei Ueshiba. Profusamente ilustr

Mucho más que una técnica de defensa propia, el aikido es una disciplina física y espiritual. El libro del aikido es una introducción esencial a la filosofía y la práctica de este arte marcial o "arte de la paz", practicado ya por cientos de miles de occidentales.

El budo puede traducirse como ''el camino de la acción valerosa e iluminada''. Representa una suerte de código de honor a la par que una vía de realización presente en las artes marciales, pues en el budo espiritualidad y artes marciales, se funden en un nivel de destreza y desarrollo mas elevado. Este libro contiene enseñanzas esenciales de distintos maestros legendarios del budo en el arte del sable, karate, judo, aikido y otras disciplinas, en una selecta coleccion de gran valor historico, con principios e instrucciones practicas provenientes de manuales de formacion, extractos de textos sobre la filosofia del budo, e historias y anecdotas provenientes de distintas fuentes.

This book captures the life and teachings of legendary Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, creator of Aikido, the Way of Peace. Writings on the master''s life, his poems, sayings, quotes, and calligraphy are featured alongside a marvelous array of photographs, which document Ueshiba?s training methods as well as his daily life in his final years. Aikido utilizes techniques for healing and conciliation, rather than force, and TRAINING WITH THE MASTER reflects this innovative concept with a grace and harmony beyond its mere functionality as a book for learning Aikido. For students, and for those seeking an understanding of the Way of Peace, this book is a valuable aid and beautiful depiction of the great teacher?s life and legacy.

Among the persons whose genius, heroism and force of character influenced events, and won commanding game, in the seventeenth century, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is justly regarded of the first. The War of Thirty Years, a long and terrible struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, largely influenced by the rivalry and bitter hostility between France and the House of Austria, called out the strong qualities of the Swedish king. The influence of his reign on his own country, and of his career in Germany on the prospects of Protestantism in continental Europe, will always constitute an interesting theme for historical students and readers. A military man of remarkable powers, his high moral qualities and lofty purposes forbid his standing in the category of the Alexanders, the Marlboroughs, and Napoleons. As fascinating as romance, thrilling with all that is exciting and terrible in war, his life is perused with interest and profit by those who wish to understand some of the most momentous events which have influenced the history of the modern world. The author has read and carefully considered whatever might throw light on his character and career. To this end he has studied the best Swedish, German, French and English writers on the subject, and has improved suggestive conversations with Swedish scholars and statesmen; and this volume is the result. He realizes its imperfection and inadequacy as a full statement of the genius and work of the remarkable personage it attempts to represent. But the essential facts and import of his history are presented, and to these the critical reader will be able to supply what wants in our manner of statement.

Among the persons whose genius, heroism and force of character influenced events, and won commanding game, in the seventeenth century, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is justly regarded of the first. The War of Thirty Years, a long and terrible struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, largely influenced by the rivalry and bitter hostility between France and the House of Austria, called out the strong qualities of the Swedish king. The influence of his reign on his own country, and of his career in Germany on the prospects of Protestantism in continental Europe, will always constitute an interesting theme for historical students and readers. A military man of remarkable powers, his high moral qualities and lofty purposes forbid his standing in the category of the Alexanders, the Marlboroughs, and Napoleons. As fascinating as romance, thrilling with all that is exciting and terrible in war, his life is perused with interest and profit by those who wish to understand some of the most momentous events which have influenced the history of the modern world. The author has read and carefully considered whatever might throw light on his character and career. To this end he has studied the best Swedish, German, French and English writers on the subject, and has improved suggestive conversations with Swedish scholars and statesmen; and this volume is the result. He realizes its imperfection and inadequacy as a full statement of the genius and work of the remarkable personage it attempts to represent. But the essential facts and import of his history are presented, and to these the critical reader will be able to supply what wants in our manner of statement.